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Limbaugh: 'We Need Segregated Buses'

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What, me worry?9/20/2009 12:52:09 pm PDT

re: #236 BryanS

Actually Republicans controlled both houses, and Cheney held the tie vote in the Senate. So it was intentional bipartisanship—the Bush was criticized for back in the day—that passed that legislation. You probably also forget that Republican orthodoxy before GWB was that eduction issues belonged to the states. Bush conceded this critical point in passing no child left behind.

The biggest problem with the negative rhetoric (like Rush or Beck) is that it distracts from the real issues, issues people may like and it hurts both sides.

When Jeb Bush became the Gov of Florida, he had taken the position from MacKay(D) who took it from Childs(D) (whom I believed passed away). At any rate one of the first orders of business was to cut education, specifically special schools and classes for at risk kids. Systems that worked for keeping kids out of jail and focused on education. And they’re still suffering, although Charlie Crist is a moderate Republican (keep an eye on him, btw, he’s not a bad guy), he doesn’t support these programs as the Dem govs did.

I wouldn’t mind the feds stepping in, at least to in some way protect these kinds of systems from failing because they work. When you have a better educated populace, you have less crime.